On April 27, BYD’s fourth RoRo (roll-on/roll-off) ship – Shenzhen – formally began its first ocean voyage to Brazil with greater than 7,000 new power autos onboard ranging from Jiangsu, China. Brazil is BYD’s largest abroad market and the automaker has the quickest development in funding in Brazil amongst Chinese language automakers up to now two years.
In 2024, BYD additionally grew to become the “quickest rising model” in Brazil with fashions such because the BYD Tune Professional and Seagull.
Earlier in January this 12 months, the BYD Shenzhen undocked in Yangzhou port, about three hours north-west of Shanghai.
Then on April 22, BYD held a supply ceremony for Shenzhen, which measures 219.9 meters lengthy and 37.7 meters large with 12 decks. The BYD Shenzhen can journey as much as a velocity of 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h) and carry as much as 9,200 autos concurrently, which is equal to an space of 20 soccer fields, making it the most important automobile service on the earth, in response to the official. The ship additionally adopts a dual-fuel propulsion system utilizing Liquefied Pure Gasoline (LNG) and traditional gas.
Within the first quarter of 2025, BYD mentioned its RoRo ships have transported greater than 25,000 new power autos from China to abroad. This quantity is small in comparison with BYD’s first quarter abroad gross sales determine, which was 206,000 items, a year-on-year improve of roughly 110%. In March alone, BYD’s abroad gross sales had been 72,723 items. Within the coming years, BYD is anticipated to vastly develop its automobile service fleet to satisfy the calls for.
Since 2024, BYD has operated 4 RoRo ships, together with the Explorer No.1, Changzhou, Hefei, and Shenzhen. Trying forward, BYD’s fifth RoRo ship “Changsha” was undocked in March and is anticipated to be delivered in Might. On the identical time, BYD undocked the “Xi’an” RoRo ship in April, however the official supply date has not been introduced but right now.
Supply: BYD Weibo, BYD Information
